CHICAGO - If you're placing all your health care bets on Obamacare, don't. Eventually it will be overturned. At least that's the opinion of the American Medical Association's former chief.
Chicago Conservative Examiner's Keith Liscio visited with former AMA head Dr. Donald Palmisano while he was in Chicago for the AMA’s annual conference last week. Palmisano is the spokesman for the Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights. Liscio writes:
First and foremost, Palmisano (who is an attorney as well as a doctor) believes that the law will not survive scrutiny in the Supreme Court. He bases this opinion on an analysis of the expected swing vote on the Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy.
According to Palmisano, Kennedy has generally been reluctant to extend the Commerce Clause of the Constitution unnecessarily. In this case, the Obama administration is hoping that the court will essentially give it permission to regulate a person’s right not to buy health insurance by imposing a fine. Palmisano believes that this will be viewed by the court as regulating “inactivity” and will not stand, saying, “If the government can regulate that, they can force you to do anything.”
There's more fodder to Palmisano's informed opinion. Read the rest HERE.
